Did you use the configuration option: allow_numbers    !!!
If you use this options numbers will be indexed and can be searched for



John Lines wrote:
> 
> Our documents which are indexed with htdig include some about the year 2000,
> and one of my users did a search for 'year 2000' and was surprised not to
> get anything back.
> 
> I suspect that htdig excludes pure numbers from the words it collects, and
> so when he asked for 'year AND 2000' it didnt find anything - but that came
> as a bit of a surprise to the user. Htsearch can also be prevented from
> finding words which do really exist by including a word from the bad_words
> list in the search, for example 'free will' (assuming a database of
> philosphical
> texts.
> 
> As a suggestion for a future enhancement it would be good if htsearch could
> identify that it was being asked to search for a noise word and either
> silently discard it, or better, tell the user 'ignored search for 2000'.
> 
>         John Lines
> 
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